Steven Spielberg

STEVEN SPIELBERG. American filmmaker widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and the most commercially successful director in film history. He is the recipient of many accolades including ; three Academy Awards / two BAFTA Awards / four Golden Globe Awards and four Directors Guild of America Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". The television film Duel (1971) was first full-length film which later received an international theatrical release. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974) and became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He directed more escapist box office successes including ; Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) / ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–89). He explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, he directed back-to-back blockbuster hits with the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park (the highest-grossing film ever at the time) and the Holocaust drama Schindler's List which has often been listed as one of the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter and the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). He has since directed the science fiction films ; A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) / Minority Report (2002) and War of the Worlds (2005). The historical dramas ; Amistad (1997) / Munich (2005) / War Horse (2011) / Lincoln (2012) / Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017) and the semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans (2022). He co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series including ; Poltergeist (1982) / Gremlins (1984) / Back to the Future (1985) / Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Band of Brothers (2001). He has had a long collaboration with the composer John Williams with whom he has worked for all but five of his feature films. Several of his works are considered amongst the greatest films in history and some are amongst the highest-grossing films ever. In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people and in 2023 he was the recipient of the first ever Time 100 Impact Award in the US